Interprofessional Working: An Essential Guide for Health- and Social-care Professionals (Expanding Nursing & Health Care Practice) - Softcover

Day, Jane

 
9780748797684: Interprofessional Working: An Essential Guide for Health- and Social-care Professionals (Expanding Nursing & Health Care Practice)

Synopsis

This book provides the reader with the underpinning theoretical and practical knowledge, skills, and understanding to work effectively as a member of an interprofessional health care team. This is essential for the delivery of quality health and social care that is focused on the needs of the patient/client. The book examines recent developments in the UK health and social care policy. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring that service users are the focus of care and that all healthcare professionals work as an integrated team to provide this standard of care. Interprofessional Working addresses issues such as barriers between professionals, ethics, teamwork and team dynamics, expertise and leadership, communication, and learning. Supported by evidence and research throughout, the book is written in a practical style with real-life scenarios to allow the reader to relate theory to practice.

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About the Author

Dr. Jane Day is currently Head of Division for Practice Learning and Midwifery, within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University Campus Suffolk. Her professional background is that of a therapeutic radiographer, and part of the responsibility within her current role is the management of the pre registration Interprofessional Learning Programme provided for all pre registration professional students at UCS.

Review

Chapter 1 - Introduction - The key concepts of interprofessional working Chapter 2 - The context of interprofessional working Chapter 3 - Teams, teamwork and team dynamics Chapter 4 - Leadership and expertise Chapter 5 - Communicating with each other Chapter 6 - Interprofessional learning within a practice context Chapter 7 - Barriers to effective interprofessional working Appendix 1 -Rapid recap answers

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